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Geography
Bantu Culture
Ghana
Aksum
Vocabulary
100
This desert stretches across most of North Africa. It is the world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara?
100
The Bantu migrated in search of better ____ and better grazing.
What is farmland?
100
These two items were the basis of West African trade.
What were salt and gold?
100
The city of Aksum was located in this present-day nation.
What is Ethiopia?
100
A city that is also a separate independent state.
What is a city-state?
200
Located in the center of Africa near the Equator, this area has hot, moist climate.
What is a rain forest?
200
In early times, most Bantu-speaking peoples were fishers, farmers, and _____.
What are herders?
200
Traders used this animal to travel through the desert because it could travel for days without water.
What is a camel?
200
During the A.D. 300s, King Ezana learned of this new religion.
What is Christianity?
200
This Bantu language with Arabic words was spoken along the East African coast.
What is Swahili?
300
This ocean lies to the west of the African continent.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
Iron tools such as this helped the Bantu to cut down trees and clear the land.
What is an ax?
300
This is a group of merchants traveling together.
What is a caravan?
300
In the A.D. 600s, Muslims fought with Aksum over control of routes on this sea.
What is the Red Sea?
300
An area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes.
What is savanna?
400
This ocean lies to the east of Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
As the Bantu migrated, they carried a knowledge of this craft with them.
What is metalworking?
400
After the decline of Ghana and its breakdown into small, independent states, this kingdom took over the trade.
What is Mali?
400
King Lalibela had his people build these out of rock.
What were churches?
400
A group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor.
What is a clan?
500
Nile, Congo, and Zambezi are all names of this body of water in Africa.
What is a river?
500
Many Bantu clans traced their ancestry through this relative's side of the family.
Who is the mother?
500
Ancient Ghana's capital.
What was Kumbi Saleh?
500
One of the main goods traded by Aksum was this item made from elephant tusks.
What is ivory?
500
Accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth.
What is oral history?